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B23
Friday, September 29, 2017
guardian.co.tt
Niki Rodrigues is a home-schooling mother of 7. PHOTO: ANN SOVERALL PHOTOGRAPHY
Niki Rodrigues,
Outnumbered 7 to 2
Disclaimer: Reading this article
may make you exhausted.
I know it made me sweat just
thinking about the number of
things this month's "Making it
Work" mom has going on.
Niki Rodrigues is a home-school-
ing mother of 7, ranging from 1
year to 16 years. She is a Wife and
devout Christian, Blogger, Owner
of a Boutique, Consultancy Firm
and a Founding Member of the
Home Schooling Association of
Trinidad and Tobago.
Her boutique, Daughters of the
King, provides designer dresses,
suits and accessories for women
sizes 2 22 for all occasions but
without that dreaded designer
price tag and she also caters to
teens and preteens, while her
consultancy irm, Made in His
Image facilitates workshops and
seminars for companies/organ-
izations, women and teens, on
topics ranging from Personal and
Professional Branding (Image
Consultancy) to Parenting and
Teen issues.
She is the Administrative Man-
ager and Head of Deliveries to her
kid's businesses (and I don't mean
lemonade stands, these kids have
registered stuff ) and with all this
going on she still manages to look
too young to even be courting let
alone be married for 19 years.
I didn't think it was possible
to outdo herself but her recent
announcement on Facebook has
done exactly that.
Add Event Planner and Co-host
to social media sensation BMack-
Writes.
Niki will be bringing Bridgette
Mack to the shores of Trinidad for
an evening of empowerment on
November 11th, 2017.
For the past 19 years Mama
Mack, as she is affectionately
called by her 200,000 plus fans,
has been play writing, motiva-
tional speaking and inspirational
blogging all with the intention of
empowering women.
It is, therefore, no surprise that
she would chose none other than
Niki Rodrigues with whom to
partner. Niki has built her brand
around just that --- empowering
women. Having struggled with
self-esteem herself she is passion-
ate about building up women.
Her workshops have tradition-
ally been geared towards image
enhancement, starting from the
inside and working outwards.
She has facilitated many image
enhancing seminars and has re-
cently expanded her reach by
offering teen workshops, not
only in the area of image but in
the business building arena - hav-
ing helped her children build
their own businesses I think it is
safe to say that she is more than
equipped to help us do so.
In fact when I was exploring
home schooling, Niki found time
toopenherhometomesothatI
could get a real sense of what the
process looked like.
She is never too busy to help
someone in need.
Her day is very well organised
and her village is small and care-
fully selected but very supportive.
When asked how she its it all
in, Niki is always quick to give God
the glory and honestly, when you
get a peek into this "work from
home mom" there really is no
other logical explanation.
Niki is a classic mom who is
making work from home, work
for her.
NIKI RODRIGUES
Her workshops have traditionally been
geared towards image enhancement,
starting from the inside and working out-
wards. She has facilitated many image
enhancing seminars and has recently ex-
panded her reach by offering teen work-
shops, not only in the area of image but
in the business building arena."
"